yeah as a 0l who has spoken with many attorneys, if you can make the top ten percent at a tier 2 or even tier 3 school you are going to have a lot of opportunities. you should take biglaw if you can get it. not only does it pay well, but it provides you with invaluable experience and looks great on a resume. it would be to a lot of people's benefit to stick it out for a few years. thanks for the article. it talks about how associates are in demand, is that just for biglaw?

quote Stanley J. Watson IIIyou are doomed in the fated sense, but that's completely irrelevant because that's only from the viewpoint of someone who is not constrained by time. since you are temporal, for all intents and purposes you have the power to change your future

And I am with Leo, in that such a painful grind seems no great prize, not something I'd take even given the chance.

Page 50 seems much more interesting actually. It lists the satisfaction levels, and though the chart seems a little cryptic at first, it shows pretty clearly how dissatisfied biglaw lawyers are compared to other lawyers. While solo practitioners had the highest satisfaction levels, government lawyers weren't too far behind, while biglaw lawyers were at the bottom.

The only area where biglaw seemed to give high satisfaction was, not surprisingly, in the area of compensation/advancement opportunities (the two were put in one metric, so I imagine that most of the satisfaction comes from the compensation, not so much from opportunities for advancement since it's so difficult to make partner at biglaw).